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Naming My Feelings

Second graders grow their feelings vocabulary beyond happy and sad — learning words like proud, nervous, frustrated, and jealous — and connecting each feeling to when they might have it.

Grade 2CASEL: Self-Awareness30 minutes1 class periodCASEL SELExplicit teaching4 StandardsCASEL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Name more feelings.
  • ✓Connect feelings to times.
  • ✓Know feelings are okay.
  • ✓Talk about feelings.
Essential Question

You know happy and sad — but there are so many more feelings! Proud, nervous, frustrated… the more feeling words you know, the better you understand yourself. What are they?

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Interactive Task
Match It · Interactive

Match the Feeling to When

Project this and match each feeling to when you might have it — tap a feeling, then tap when.

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Feeling
When You Feel It
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The Lesson · SEL Flow (Check-In · Learn · Practice · Apply · Reflect)

30 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Check-In — More Than Happy & Sad

4 min

There are so many feelings — how many can you name?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Do a feelings check-in.
  • Ask for feeling words.
  • Be caring.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Share.
  • Name some.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Feeling Words

8 min

Children learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Explain proud, nervous, frustrated.
  • Say all feelings are okay.
  • Show faces.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Learn words.
  • Know it’s okay.
  • Make faces.
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Practice — Match the Feeling

8 min

Children practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send children to Match the Feeling to When.
  • Match each one.
  • Talk kindly.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Match them.
  • Talk.
  • Explain.
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Apply — My Feelings

6 min

Children apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a feeling from today.
  • Say when you felt it.
  • Know it’s okay.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Say when.
  • Accept it.
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Reflect — Reflect

4 min

Children close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Share a feeling word.
  • Say it’s okay.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Share it.
  • Accept it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the CASEL 5 Social & Emotional Learning Competencies.

CASEL
Self-Awareness

Name a wider range of feelings.

CASEL
Self-Awareness

Connect feelings to situations.

CASEL
Self-Awareness

Accept all feelings as okay.

CASEL
Self-Management

Notice feelings as they come.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Feeling-face cards.
  • Sentence frame: “I feel ___ when ___.”
  • Use a feelings chart.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with proud and nervous.
  • Use faces.
  • Match one at a time.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add more feeling words.
  • Notice feelings in a story.
  • Draw a feeling.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 😊A feelings chart
  • 💻Match the Feeling to When
  • 🖍️Crayons
  • 🪞A mirror
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

feelingan emotion inside youproudglad about what you didnervousa little scared or unsureexcitedeager and happyfrustratedupset that something is hardjealouswanting what someone hasemotiona feelingokayall right to have
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
When might you feel proud?
When you finish something hard.
QUESTION 2
When might you feel nervous?
When you have to speak in front of the class.
QUESTION 3
Is it okay to feel frustrated sometimes?
Yes — all feelings are okay.

Reflect: name your feeling.

Have children name a feeling they had today and when they felt it. A printable feelings sheet is in the SEL library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Self-Awareness: Naming My FeelingsPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: emotion, excited, feeling, frustrated, jealous, nervous, okay, proud
  1. glad about what you did
  2. a little scared or unsure
  3. a feeling
  4. eager and happy
  5. wanting what someone has
  6. all right to have
  7. an emotion inside you
  8. upset that something is hard

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. When might you feel proud?
  2. When might you feel nervous?
  3. Is it okay to feel frustrated sometimes?
Answer key — Part A: 1) proud · 2) nervous · 3) emotion · 4) excited · 5) jealous · 6) okay · 7) feeling · 8) frustrated
Part B: 1) When you finish something hard. 2) When you have to speak in front of the class. 3) Yes — all feelings are okay.